New York Times Spotlights Librarians, but Misses the Bullseye. When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call a Librarian “For generations, reference librarians have been known as the source for answers to perplexing questions on almost any subject. In recent years libraries found other means for answering questions, offering reference services over the telephone, by e-mail,… Continue reading New York Times Spotlights Librarians, but Misses the Bullseye
Month: February 2004
Clay Exits Deanspace: When Smartmobs Mesmerize Themselves
Clay Exits Deanspace: When Smartmobs Mesmerize Themselves. Clay Shirky's brilliant and brutally honest post-mortem on the Dean phenomenon has a lot to say about the apparently delusional side-effects of the technologies that helped propel the Howard Dean campaign to prominence. Among other direct hits, Shirky put his finger on a shadow side of social capital:… Continue reading Clay Exits Deanspace: When Smartmobs Mesmerize Themselves
Enterprises Can Farm Out Security
Enterprises Can Farm Out Security. Denver-based Accucode, a systems integrator, has created a wireless security practice: Accucode will audit a customer's WLAN to identify risk and then perform penetration tests. Accucode will either update the security architecture or design a new system…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]
3rd Wave Hits Atlanta
3rd Wave Hits Atlanta. 3rd Wave, a provider of outsourced IT services for small- to medium-sized businesses in Atlanta, is building Wi-Fi networks without charge for venues around town as a way to drum up awareness of the company: So far, it has built hotspots in 12 venues and expects to have a total of… Continue reading 3rd Wave Hits Atlanta
Dean Says He'll Quit if He Doesn't Win Wisconsin
Dean Says He'll Quit if He Doesn't Win Wisconsin. Reeling from a string of defeats, Howard Dean staked his presidential bid on the Democratic primary in Wisconsin in 12 days. By Jodi Wilgoren and Adam Nagourney. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
The IE Patch (MS04-004) demystified
The IE Patch (MS04-004) demystified. Michael has written a post demystifying what went into the latest IE patch. He also pointed out Microsoft's Knowledge Base article on the subject, with a registry setting to renable this “feature”. Interesting to note that in his first book entitled “Designing Secure Web-Based Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000”, he… Continue reading The IE Patch (MS04-004) demystified
DEVONthink 1.8 and DEVONagent 1.2.1 updates
DEVONthink 1.8 and DEVONagent 1.2.1 updates [The Macintosh News Network]
New Exchange Cookbook Blog
New Exchange Cookbook Blog. Here's another new Exchange blog to add to your list/subsciptions… it's the Exchange Cookbook blog, which Paul Robichaux, Devin Ganger and Missy Koslosky have created as a companion to the book that they're currently writing, to be called of course, the Exchange Cookbook, and is to be published by O'Reilly. Paul is… Continue reading New Exchange Cookbook Blog
[Scripting News
I started my third corporation last week. The new company is called Scripting News, Inc. It owns this site and a few others, and some software I'm working on. It's a Massachusetts corporation. So I guess I'm going to be here for a while. [Scripting News]
OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”
OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”. OCLC's Office of Research is offering, experimentally, a service that looks up submitted ISBNs in their FRBRized WorldCat, and returns other ISBNs associated with the same work. E.g.: http://labs.oclc.org/xisbn/0441172717 (the ISBN of Dune). This is something we've needed for a long time to improve automated searching in virtual union catalogues and… Continue reading OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”